Daily Policy Digest
Environment Issues
| Car Battery Start-Ups Fizzle GM once hoped to sell 45,000 Chevrolet Volts this year, but it sold only 5,700 units in the first four months of this year... |
| Fisker May Never Build Electric Cars in United States After receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Energy loans, luxury carmaker Fisker Automotive is turning out to be a bad investment... |
| EPA's Pretense of Science: Regulating Phantom Risk Because fine particulate matter also results from natural processes, attempting to reduce emissions below natural levels will be ineffective and unlikely to save lives... |
| Why We Will Never Run Out of Oil “Peak oil” and general fears about the depletion of “recoverable reserves” mislead the public insofar as they fail to account for the role of human ingenuity... |
| The Problem of Overfishing Eighty-five percent of world fish stocks for which assessment information is available are either fully exploited or overexploited, depleted or recovering from depletion... |
| Gasoline Prices: Why So High, and What to Do? A weak dollar has contributed to rising gas prices; from its peak in March 2009, the dollar has fallen 17 percent against other major currencies, which is equivalent to a 20.5 percent increase in oil prices... |
| Solving the Electric Car Puzzle Unless the power infrastructure challenge is addressed in advance, the very success of the electric car will drive its failure... |
| Green Energy Jobs Far Short of Obama Goal The wind industry has lost about 10,000 jobs since 2009, even though it doubled its domestic production... |
| Plastic Bag Ban Will Not Achieve Goals Studies from across the country demonstrate that, on average, plastic retail bags make up only about 1 percent to 2 percent of all litter... |
| Unconventional Energy Meets Conventional Politics: Which Will Win? Government regulation and political buckling to environmental groups could choke the shale oil industry and halt the energy revolution before it begins... |
